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What Succulent Feeds Are Good for Rabbits?
Succulent feeds boost milk in lactating does. Good ones: beet (~1000 g, wash and chop, avoid old nitrate-forming batches), carrot (~500 g, rich in carotene), sow thistle/lettuce (750–1000 g, vitamin-rich, must be fresh and dry), and pumpkin (300–400 g steamed, ripe red). Cut amounts if mixing several to avoid diarrhea.
Understanding Normal Rabbit Behaviors
Knowing a rabbit's normal behaviors helps breeders spot problems early and respond in time. Key patterns include feeding and drinking, nursing, cecotrophe (soft stool) eating, and territorial marking. Recognizing what is typical versus abnormal is essential to rabbit health and productive husbandry.
How to Prevent Rabbit Gastroenteritis
Rabbit gastroenteritis can kill within hours to days, especially in kits, so prevention beats treatment. Feed clean, regular, balanced meals; avoid spoiled or frozen food and over-rich concentrates; treat bloat early with vinegar or herbal tinctures; and keep the hutch dry and the rabbit moving to avoid constipation.
Types of Rabbit Feed
Rabbit feed falls into three groups — concentrates (pellets), roughage (hay), and succulents (vegetables, roots). Pellets cover energy and protein; hay supplies the fiber rabbits need most; succulents add water and vitamins but cause diarrhea if overfed. Wash and drain greens, and treat them as occasional, not staples.
What Food Is Best for Rabbits to Eat?
What food do rabbits eat? Most people probably think of carrots. In fact, besides grass as a staple, besides carrots, there are other fresh fruits and vegetables that rabbits can eat. Below we give examples of some common foods suitable for rabbits to help them grow healthily.
Rabbit Mastitis
Mastitis in rabbits causes loss of appetite and refusal to nurse; without prompt treatment the doe can die from septicemia. The main signs are a hot, red, painful udder that may turn blue in severe cases. It most often appears in nursing does around 20 days after kindling.
Japanese White Rabbit
The Japanese White Rabbit is essentially the large white rabbit grown in Japan, also called the Japanese Large White. Said to descend from a cross of Chinese and Japanese white rabbits, it is a common breed mainly used for production. It matures early, grows fast, tolerates coarse feed, is a good mother with strong fertility, and is often used as a "foster mother" rabbit.
Amami Rabbit
The Amami Rabbit, also known as the Ryukyu rabbit, is an ancient wild rabbit with short ears, native to Japan and considered a living fossil and close relative of the Arctic hare. It is listed as Endangered (EN) on the IUCN Red List.
How to Wean Kits (Baby Rabbits)
Wean kits to let the doe recover and the young adapt: breeding/Angora/Rex at 30–40 days, meat rabbits at 28–35 days, or before 28 days under intensive 'blood mating'. Use one-time weaning for uniform litters and staged weaning for uneven ones, cut the doe's concentrates first to prevent mastitis, and keep kits in their original hutch 3–5 days post-weaning to reduce stress and losses.
How to Schedule Breeding Buck Mating Reasonably?
Beyond the buck's own fertility, scheduling his matings well is key to raising conception. Today we discuss how to schedule buck mating reasonably.